{"id":192727,"date":"2025-10-07T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/07\/taylor-swift-isnt-vying-for-a-grammy-nomination-for-the-first-time-since-she-was-17-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:16:29","slug":"taylor-swift-isnt-vying-for-a-grammy-nomination-for-the-first-time-since-she-was-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/07\/taylor-swift-isnt-vying-for-a-grammy-nomination-for-the-first-time-since-she-was-17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Isn\u2019t Vying for a Grammy Nomination for the First Time Since She Was\u00a017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> isn\u2019t vying for a Grammy nomination in any category this year. The reason, of course, is that Swift didn\u2019t release an album, single or video in the eligibility period for the 68th annual Grammy Awards \u2013 Aug. 31, 2024 to Aug. 30, 2025. Her new album, The Life of a Showgirl<\/em>, and its lead single, \u201cThe Fate of Ophelia,\u201d were both released on Oct. 3, more than a month after the cut-off for the 2026 awards.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis marks the first time Swift hasn\u2019t been vying for a Grammy she was 17. For the Grammy ceremony in February 2007, Swift was eligible for best country song and best female country vocal performance for her first hit single, \u201cTim McGraw,\u201d but she wasn\u2019t entered in either category. (She may have still been too busy with her high school studies to have mastered the fine points of Grammy entry deadlines.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift has been a nominee in all but three years since then. She wasn\u2019t nominated at the ceremonies held in 2009, 2011 and 2017, but she had been entered in two or more categories at each of those shows.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s debut album, Taylor Swift<\/em>, wasn\u2019t nominated for best country album at the 2008 ceremony (though it was entered; the award went to Vince Gill<\/a> for These Days<\/em>), but every one of her regular studio albums since then has been nominated for a genre album award (best country album or best pop vocal album) and\/or album of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwice, she was nominated for record of the year with the lead-off single from an upcoming studio album \u2013 \u201cWe Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\u201d from Red<\/em> and \u201cShake It Off\u201d from 1989.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tStarting with \u201cCardigan\u201d from Folklore<\/em> in 2020, Swift hasn\u2019t released a lead-off single in advance of her studio albums. The lead singles from Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, The Tortured Poets Department <\/em>and The Life of a Showgirl <\/em>were released on the same day as the album, or even a few days after it (in the case of \u201cCardigan\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift has won 14 Grammys, and is, famously, the only artist in Grammy history to win album of the year four times.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Swift didn\u2019t win the first time she was nominated for a Grammy. She lost best new artist in 2008 to the gifted but troubled Amy Winehouse<\/a>. Swift did make it to the stage that year \u2013 as a presenter. She and Colombian singer Juanes<\/a> co-presented the Grammy for best rap\/sung collaboration, which went to Rihanna<\/a> and Jay-Z<\/a> for \u201cUmbrella.\u201d Relive that moment here:<\/p>\n

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